Awaiting the Dawn

Dorcas Hoover

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The front door groaned under the blows that threatened to break it down, and the whole house seemed to shudder.

Trembling, Marie peered through the curtain. A chill shot through her body. There was only glass between her and three masked men who were pacing on the porch, hacking at the door with their gleaming machetes.

"It is because we care about your people that we have come to your country," John began quietly. . . .

"You talk to the villagers against the guerillas," the gunman cut in impatiently. . . .

. . . Marie froze. The realization of what was about to take place stabbed her heart like the blade of a machete. "You can't . . ." she cried in anguish. . . .

Across the mountains echoed an agonized, heart-rending cry.

Awaiting the Dawn takes the reader through the dark night of trauma and grief the Troyer family experienced at the hands of terrorists in Guatamala. The final chapters show the unexpected ways God brought healing to bleeding hearts.

Faith and love triumphed over hate and murder when one midnight, terrorists attack a missionary family in Guatemala. A true account of John Troyer's martyrdom.